I hope that all of you did absolutely wonderfully in your various pursuits through the day. Did you win your game? I’m typing this before my outcome is apparent so I’ll just say that it was an incredible bone-headed/genius move on my part and you can pick the word that applies best. A number of you should have Ben/Brown/Bell in the mix either for your squadoo or against it so there’s more than one reason to take in this tilt. Who will win? Why? How? I have no idea, that’s not my job. Still, TO THE GAME!
Bal/Pit: Reports of Ryan Shazier’s health/recovery are guardedly optimistic at best in these early days but given the kind of shape he was in I’m betting that he comes out of this just fine. It’s just gonna take a while is all. The Steelers game last week was all kinds of rough and tough and maybe dirty and I see no let-up whatsoever tonight. The Ravens D can bring intensity and physicality as well and as often as any team in the league so Pittsburgh best be ready. Baltimore’s big problem lies in the fact that top cb Jimmy Carr tore his Achilles so Mr. Brown gets either Carr or rook Humphrey. I’m guessing the former will go for at least 120. (Jinx!) The other wideout of note on the team-Juju-won’t be engaging in the voodoo he do so Bryant might show out as well. Miracle Whip stockholder Joe Flacco doesn’t have any issues playing within the confines of Heinz Field-over his last 7 he’s 4-3 and has completed 64% of his passes. Given Shazier’s absence, I’m sure he’ll be looking to target his te (whoever that might be) a little more than usual.
It’s all yours…
That reminds me. I forgot to call my girlfriend today.
Btw if Shogun and Amoeba are still around, they might get a kick out of this:
I got shit from a Packers fan in Colorado for wearing a Bears jersey today.
So fuck her.
More importantly, did you?
She would have broken my dick quicker than Lady BFC if I had been receptive.
Broke Dick is a major injury…… especially for Richard.
Wait, you got lucky too?
First world problem alert: I fucking hate it when Uber/Lyft drivers tap the “I’m here/leaving in 4 minutes” or whatever before they’re actually at the pick up point. You’re not there, fuck you.
Rob Ryan with the best seat in the house as usual.
Only these days it’s usually in Mama Ryan’s basement.
He’s got all the booze and what looks like a fine assortment of phonograph albums.
Welp, helluva day in football, eh? Nothing left to do now but get drunk and break some shit.
DON’T YOU RUN AWAY FROM ME CAT!!!!!!
I’ll get you, you li’l bastard.
(mine is actually sleeping under Xmas tree and I just petted her lovingly)
((some things are more important than a day of football which fucked me from many directions))
Since I don’t gambol on it, and once I quit FF I have been a LOT less angry on Sunday nights. I dread Mondays enough already without the irritation with little upside, for me anyway.
This is a great idea. *queues up Limp Bizkit*
Oddly hypnotic…
For the kitty too.
I hate to promote stereotypes but you can just tell that, outside of being a QB, Roethlesberger is as dumb as a cinder block.
Stereotype? A lot of people with berger at the end of their names are idiots.
He cannot outsmart bullet.
https://youtu.be/IGBjhYOuE7I
Al Michaels explained four times that they “wound the clock” and that’s why it ended. What the hell does “wind the clock” mean? He never explained that part.
I was listening to the radio broadcast. Ten second runoff by rule?
Ten-second run off I get, and its self-explanatory. “Wind the clock” means they got up and wound the mainspring? Not once did he say “ten second runoff”
Well Al likes his gin.
And his other gin. And that other gin too. Really, he likes all his gins.
He prolly likes gin that is not even his.
BAD AL! THAT’S MY GIN!
It means that they restarted the clock, so the last seconds ticked off 😉
Thank you! So what he meant to say was “they started the clock.” Because “wind” and “start” are not synonyms. Clearly I feel strongly about this. Bad Al!
“wind the clock” means starting the game clock when the refs spot the ball.
Thank you! See above.
The phrase is because the refs swing their arms to start the clock, like winding an old school clock.
I’m still not buying “wind” and “start” being the same.
You ever heard of a manual watch? Literally needs to be wound to start.
You also wind a manual stopwatch, which is what they used to time football games. Starting and stopping it are different operations.
I’ll wind up this argument again in tomorrow night’s thread.
I’ve always just thought it was “start the play clock”, some things just go by.
Well, I guess the Patriots are going to have to earn that #1 seed themselves next Sunday.
Hell of an ending.
Night boys.
Does this really need to be reviewed FFS?
Where’s Wallace!?!
George is dead.
So is Omar.
Marcellus is looking for some hard pipe hitting ninjas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWzrtWMdkl0
Idaho
Would also accept Hamsterdam.
506 yards passing for a guy who can’t read. What a country!
A consent form.
Plenty of time for Flacco to march down the field and choke.
Pick 6 please.
I wish he’d hurry up so I can go back to watching The Crown. And deciding whether Queen Elizabeth is hotter than Princess Margaret, which is something I never expected to think about before.
Oh so nobody here thinks power is sexy?
– Roy Moore speaking to a middle school assembly
Ah, but it’s a constitutional monarchy, so no real power. You’ll just have to wait for Margaret Thatcher to show up in a future season…
The Ravens learn, as so many have before, that if Ben wants to force it into Brown, it’s gonna happen whether you like it or not
Nice pass.
There was no holding whatsoever on that play either.
Landed. How the fuck is this game not over yet?
Just lucky, I guess?
Don’t act like it’s not your fault.
True. I’m learning more and more that most things are, LOL.
Maybe you’ll learn not to dress like that.
This side by side ad shit is useless during a timeout NBC.
Crowd wants a flag for what, Al?
STFU.
I don’t know the Steelers very well. Why does Bell only have 12 carries?
Probably has something to do with Roethlisberger’s 60 passes.
MAYBE.
That’s more of the effect than the cause, tho
I thought he left the game for a while after a helmet to the knee.
Which is almost as bad as a football to the groin
But a football to the groin works on so many levels!
Fucking Steelers are probably going to win this on a last second field goal, just like last week and the week before.
I suspect Flacco will make such that it won’t be a FG, or last second.
ELITE
Yup.
I’m gonna go with my call.
OK, not last second.
Good call.
But Flacco gave it his best shot on the 3rd down almost intercepted twice pass.
I guess Flacco could still throw an INT.
Where there’s a will there’s a way.
Drinking fire probably not a great idea
The middle half of this game was pretty great.
The edges, not so much.
“No time to explain…. just get in….” …..
I may have spoken too soon.
Shame Styx had to be so goofy and artsy all the time. Renegade was a fucking banger.
If anyone could answer the question, “What is Love?”, it would be the world’s greatest detective.
(Baby don’t hurt me!)
Hey lady . . .
Have you been to the NASA museum in Houston? They have a bunch of the experimental air frames sitting around that nobody pays attention to.
No but I’d love to go there. I love air museums.
I drove through Houston once, though.
If you go; check out the USS Texas (watch your head; I almost knocked myself out). Not impressed with the city other than a few restaurants and those two places.
Lotta cool experimentals at the AF Museum at Wright Patterson in Dayton, too.
When I was there it wasn’t a nice display like the photo here, kind of a shame.
They’ve moved it (the X planes and Air Force Ones) from that old hangar on base and the display is now merged with the rest of the museum.
I meant in Houston; the section for kids with video games and shit gets all the attention and money, not the history part.
I’d like to go to this one in Dayton.
I could spend three days there.
The one in San Diego is OK too, but you can tell they don’t have much money either.
Like Brick said, the Pima in Tucson is pretty good too.
I’d rather go the Tucson than Dayton…..
The Wright Brothers invented the airplane to get the fuck out of Dayton.
Nice.
Pima is worth a trip to Tucson. There’s not much else there, although it is a nice little town.
This one is equal to the Smithsonian, even though it’s more focused. Pima is a great one also.
I’d even go to Ohio for that.
shoulder to shoulder, dickass
….. connected to the knee bone…..
holy shit, PIT done turned into buttttt
Methinks they got aspoken to by certain…Goodelfellas. You behave your shit this week goddamnit!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohgr51CqliY
From the 1976 election circuit. Future first lady Rosalynn Carter with uh, dignitaries.
Future VP Walter Mondale with members of the religious left.
And Governor Moonbeam with other, uh luminaries.
Some interesting context, that picture was taken during the great pixel famine of 1976, which is why it looks like that.
I’m not making a political statement it’s just creepy as fuck that the Carter campaign called on the People’s Temple to help carry the Northern California vote.
Yep, that’s our boy Jim Jones.
Well it’s not like anyone coulda known…
Huh wha? All the creepy signs were there? Pretty clearly? Well hindsights always 50/50.
Kool-Aid Lives Matter
But history lives forever!
Doesn’t it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0ul-BghOAs
Early tests don’t show a complete tear for Wentz.
He can ask Jeebus whether to play on it and RG3 hisself?
Well, Reggie White said God told him not to retire, so there is precedent.
RIP Reverend
We will all witness the Foles ascendancy
To aggressive mediocrity?
It has been foretold. He is already a hall of famer.
Employee of the Month at Olive Garden does NAWT count!
have you seen the RG3 playoff game?